[Vwoolf] Woolf and Queenie Roth (later Leavis)

[Emily Kopley]

Hi Michael, and all,

S. P. Rosenbaum in *Aspects of Bloomsbury* (113-118) surveys the accounts
of those who heard the original "Women and Fiction" lectures. Of QD Leavis,
he writes (here
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online), "Another undergraduate who heard the Girton paper was Queenie
Roth. A friend recalled that she impressed Woolf, who was going to send her
a pamphlet (Gwendolen Freeman, *Alma Mater*, p. 87)...."

And Jane Marcus discusses the Girton and Newnham audiences in *VW,
Cambridge, and *AROO: '*The Proper Upkeep of Names' *(London: Cecil Woolf,
1996). She also discusses QD Leavis on Woolf briefly in "No More Horses: VW
on Art and Propaganda," in *Art and Anger*.

Best,
Emily

On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 3:14 PM Michael Gorra via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> What is known about the audience to whom Woolf delivered the lectures that
> became A Room of One's Own? I know that they were at Girton and Newnham in
> fall 1928, but that's about it.  I ask because I'm wondering it was
> possible that
> What is known about the audience to whom Woolf delivered the lectures that
> became A Room of One's Own? I know that they were at Girton and Newnham in
> fall 1928, but that's about it.  I ask because I'm wondering it was
> possible that Queenie Roth--Q.D. Leavis a few years later--was in the
> audience.  She'd finished her undergraduate work at Girton that spring but
> since she stuck around for a Ph.D....It would be a wonderful irony if she
> had been given the Leavises later hostility to Woolf, and of course Fiction
> and the Reading Public (1932) contains just the mass of information that
> Woolf encouraged students to collect.
>
> with thanks,
>
> MG
>
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Dr. Emily Kopley
Author of *Virginia Woolf and Poetry
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